President trumps Hush Money Trial. He laid out tons of evidence during his testimony including tapes and emails and photos and calendar events. Impressive. One of trumps lawyers might win a case. Well, outside the court defending trump, he made a fraudian slip. Lets pray for our other side on this shameless prosecution. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 15th, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of Way Too Early Jonathan Lemire. You know how long it took us to book him . Years to get stephanopoulos and longer to get Jonathan Lemire. He just wandered . He is a chief columnist. How do you like it . I love it. Dont give me a hard time. Ive been in this seat at least three and a half minutes. Three and a half minutes yeah. Early. Right, you were. Early. Yelling there is that. Im shocked. Im shocked that john couldnt modulate his voice. I usually do that on good morning america. Heilemann is here. Author of the book how the right lost its mind Charlie Sykes
At least eight are dead, dozens injured. Now the truck driver accused of dui and facing charges. Just out, the First Ntsb Report on that baltimore bridge collapse. What happened on that ship before impact . President biden announcing sweeping new tariffs on chinas goods, including raising the tax on their electric cars to 100 . Nbc news investigates the battle between the church and a library in a place known as the hometown of superman. And superstar Caitlin Clark making her pro debut as the new wnba season tips off. Announcer this is ester h. Nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. The gloves came off today in the criminal trial of donald trump, as the defense got its chance to question former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. Trump attorney todd blanche confronting cohen with his history of lies, peppering him with questions designed to expose potential holes in his credibility, painting him as a disgruntled former Employee Bent on revenge. Cohen is a key wi
Confronting him about his own social media attacks on mr. Trump. The tense questions coming after cohen detailed a 2017 white house meeting when mr. Trump allegedly agreed to reimburse him for the Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels. The jury seeing the checks. Also, the Pressure Cohen says he felt from the former president not to flip on him, and how cohen says his family finally convinced him to turn on his old boss. Also tonight, the Horrifying Crash in florida. A Bus Carrying Farm workers colliding with a pickup. At least eight are dead, dozens injured. Now the truck driver accused of dui and facing charges. Just out, the First Ntsb Report on the baltimore bridge collapse. What happened on that ship before impact. President biden announcing sweeping new tariffs on chinas goods, including raising the tax on their electric cars to 100 . Nbc news investigates the battle between the church and a library in a place known as the hometown of superman. And superstar Caitlin Clark making h
He didn t tell us his staff met with mr. cohen for hours prior to mr. cohen testifying. he didn t tell us last summer he met with mr. simpson in colorado, palling around with the guy. so this is a pattern. we were hoping to hear from the ambassador today but we understand exactly why the administration, exactly why the state department has chosen to say, look if it s going to be this kind of process, if you ll selectively leak text messages, 67 pages of text messages we had. they take a handful of them and release to all of you and not give the full context and not release the transcript, we understand why they made this decision at this moment. i m going to let some of my ambassador sondland said he s that republican view of the world and the democratic view of the world. interesting to hear jim jordan, a staunch defender of the president, say he and republican members of the committee were looking forward to hearing from sondland as well, but defending the decision to block h
And listen, they were on to a story, right, just based on what michael cohen said. but what he said is different than what they reported. and at the end of the day, that s sort of the problem. cohen was asked repeatedly by so many gop lawmakers about deals. one kind of deal. let s take a look at what kind of deal. is there a book deal coming? are book deals. book deal. book deal about your experiences? cohen did have a book deal back when he was the president s lawyer. then he backed out of the book deal. now the president is saying there s a manuscript for this book that contradicts everything cohen said publicly and in testimony. is there a manuscript? do we know anything about that? the publisher said there wasn t a manuscript. so i don t think it now makes it a manuscript because the president is saying there is one. a couple of things about this. number one, the book deal thing seemed like a there were areas where these guys could really go after cohen s testimony,